.htaccess help - moved directory

[fredski]

I have moved the contents of one of my directories to the root, and I now need to use my htaccess to rewrite an incoming request for a file to the new url.

Say I had a page at www.domain.com/folder/page.html
it is now located at www.domain.com/page.html

I know I can do a 301 for each page but as there are thousands it isnt an option. i need it to see what the requested page is and redirect it to the root by removing the folder part of the url.

As I'm useless at rewrite i've tried to come up with something but they dont work as intended. Can anyone help me here??

Thanks in advance.

Mark

[Rob]

I think you need this:-

RewriteRule ^folder/(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L]

[fredski]

Thanks that did the trick